The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1887-03-06

artist. Mr.. Irving held the audience three hours
perhaps more closely than ever when tho play was
given on the stage"
The, London Telsgaph's Paris correspondent
says Tint although Nine. Alboni is more than
sixty years OF age, the voice of the grcat song
stress is practically unimpaircd by time. Thanks
now betrays none of TINT dctcstablc trcmolo
which is the pcrvnding defect, of the modern
contrato has the effect of tho notes OF aii organ
In Rossni's "Agnus Del" which no nrtist has
ever rendered so well Nine. Alboni's singing Is
| lesson In u now bygOnc school.
The leading newspapers of New York were not
enthusiastic over the first production of muddy
gore" in TINT city las. week. The Tribune. how,
delight and the freshness and mclodiousness of
she aErisy Of hs Che musical pieces VII ehar for
tSe @ net The s; aapSs p1ecs faEfy Will
be a popular success The World said: ''There
was no fault to be found with the musical mum:
bers, They followed one another like a string Of
pearls. Melody was ALMOST continuous "ltud-
dygorc" is unqucstionably one of the best things
about half way through the first act II became
evident that the only possible interest In the per-
formnncc was to bc found IN the music Ahopc-
less inconUr'ity was apparent in the story.
Under the head of "The Critics at the Play"
The Theatre makes the following nllusiop to Mr..
William Winter: On any first night at Dnly's
to sec IN the front @ orehcsira cairs' 5 'Wi William S WIN
ter, OF the Trihun.: John HarTington. Of the
AnSrsw 6 wnses % sG q th
af the T.ncs; Joseph Howard, Jr., of the II'ot!oi-
the Old Guard of the dramatic crticdom of New
York. Winter, tall, slight, STOPPING, withn fine
head AMI llshcvccd nuir, dreamy eyes. fnelnrl-
choly expression, has been on the Tribune nbOut
| twenty years. He halls from Gloucester, Mass,
was educated In Boston, studied law Mt Harvard,
wrote poems. sketches. s,llibs ut the Hub and IN
Gotham, called himself 'Mcrcutie.' contributed.
among other papers, to TdnitU Fair. lounged nt
the clubs, ch,immcd with actors AMI actresses.
To-day he lives nt New brighton, staten Island,
nn,l comes to town us little as possible. He has
| published IL life of Edwin Booth. of tho Jeffer-
| sons, OF Mary Andcraon. There nrc several vol
llnes OF his poems aud his travels on the market.
He has collected his criticisms on Henry Irving,
and Coombcs hns published them In his best style.
Winter is itcrdtcur. writing dramatic crtip piIcs.
! rather than newspaper man. His articles never
seem to have been struck on on the spur Of the
moment, In the press-rOom of n theatre. or amid
| the click aud clnttcr OF n bur-roon. lie writes
with care and afOrcth ought lie turns cOntinli-
ally to authorities, prccccntS, old plnybllls, old
papers, old books. He is as tiOrid ns was Gautiei
when he wrote OF Victor Hugo. as rich In super
lativcs ns was Mnca,iny when he wrote of Milton.
| Edwin Booth and John Mccullough. Adelaide
| Nelson and Mary Anderson, Joe jefferson and
| Lawrence Barrett are his friends and his idols.
Though cm3tional and hypcrbolica, Winter 4.
brilliant He is SO brilliant, I'm fact that when
read him feel like doing whit i.nnartinc said
he did when reading Paul dc Snint Victor-l put
on blue plnsscs."